# The Great XXVIII and KIRUPA meetup!

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**Created:** [August 1, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-great-xxviii-and-kirupa-meetup/195496 "2006-08-01T05:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-great-xxviii-and-kirupa-meetup/195496/1 "2006-08-01T05:11:11Z")

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Hey everyone,  
So, as a few of you know, 28 and I met at a Seattle Starbucks this past weekend. The original thread was deleted because kids couldn’t keep from spamming it, but since this is a weekday, those same kids are in summer school learning proper grammunctuation, so this thread will certainly be up longer!

So anyhoo, I went there a few hours earlier just to make sure I didn’t get lost…despite the fact I was using a cab anyway. I sent an IM to 28 from the Starbucks, and he got to the Starbucks about 30 minutes later.

Basically, we spent the next few hours talking about everything nerd-related one could talk about. Everything from the forums, to annoying people on the forums, why kids younger than me are punks, etc. etc.

In the end, we couldn’t get a picture to prove that we met. At the last moment when 28 remembered to snap a picture, the cab to pick me up arrived. Since it was a busy street, waiting till the picture could be taken was not an option ☹ 😛

So. Yep. A gorilla ate a few people, and 28 did manage to get some pictures of that. He’ll fill you in on the details.

Cheers!  
Kirupa :beam: